. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Qaftanm ^jilrnpi X [42]. Qhiiiiiiif ralF ^inlrii|ii ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 12/ IX. The Bishop of Caithness. [No. 41. Andrew Stewart. Quarterly: first and fourth Or, a fess chequy argent and azure, Stewart; secondand third Paly of six or and sable, Athol. The fess is here argent and azure, and it is so represented by Sir David Lindsay in thearms of the Earl of Athol. The blazon azure and argent, as given in the Armorialde Gelre and also by Nisbet, is probably more correct.
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Qaftanm ^jilrnpi X [42]. Qhiiiiiiif ralF ^inlrii|ii ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 12/ IX. The Bishop of Caithness. [No. 41. Andrew Stewart. Quarterly: first and fourth Or, a fess chequy argent and azure, Stewart; secondand third Paly of six or and sable, Athol. The fess is here argent and azure, and it is so represented by Sir David Lindsay in thearms of the Earl of Athol. The blazon azure and argent, as given in the Armorialde Gelre and also by Nisbet, is probably more correct. The common idea that the fess cheeky was in its origin allusive tothe checker of the Stewards board is somewhat shaken by the factpointed out by Mr. Ellis in his Antiquities of Heraldry that a between three cross crosslets is on the seals of the family ofBoteler, descended from the daughter and heir of William Fitzalan,son of the elder brother of the first High Steward of Scotland. A fieldchequy occurs in the earliest heraldry of England and France, appear-ing in the arms of the Earls of Warren, Earls of Mellent, and variouscogna
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